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[RC] Seabiscuit - MarineraI am probably one of a very few on ridecamp (probably the only one actually) who can remember being glued to the radio as Seabiscuit and War Admiral duked it out. He was my hero and I plastered my bedroom wall with his pictures from the sporting green of the San Francisco Chronicle. On Monday night when they showed clips of him on television, I found my old scrapbook with his pictures. An artist by the name of Howard Brodie drew wonderful charcoal sketches of him and I wrote Mr. Brodie a letter and told him I wanted a special picture of Seabiscuit for my bedroom wall. He kindly wrote back and told me that girls my age should be studying their schoolbooks and not gambling and horse racing. I have lost that letter, but still have all of the sketches he drew which have commentaries under them. One in particular shows Seabiscuit in the foreground and a huge lion in the background and refers to the Biscuit as "the horse with the heart of a lion, the mighty fighter and gallant hero of western turf" When he was shipped east for the match race against War Admiral I was sure something awful would happen to him. The announcer on the radio was so excited that it times it was hard to understand what he was saying, but it finally became clear that our local boy triumphed. I walked on air for days. Julie Suhr =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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